Pilottanzt was founded in 1991 by Roderich Madl and Doris Ebner in Vienna. 9 pieces were created and performed in 17 countries since then and achieved both national and international awards. Commisioned projects and international co-productions as for the EXPO2000 for art festivals and film productions were and are still translated into reality.

Pilottanzt was coproduced by the EXPO 2000 Hannover and TANZtheater International Festival with the creation E-N-D. E-N-D toured throughout Europe. This piece was a preparation work for the touring transportable performance unit MOVING GALLERY, coproduced by Internationale Tanzwoche Dresden and the Sommerszene Festival Salzburg. 2002 started the second phase of this project where the cooperation with visual artists was intensified and the surrounding space was stronger incorporated into the concept. The Solo ALICE-Wunderland ist abgebrannt was choreographed by Chris Haring for Doris Ebner and is as well part of MOVING GALLERY as it is performed independently in a stage version.
The quartett IT´S YOU-MAN (IYM) was premiered 1999 involving live-electronic music as well as a visual artist performing live. In 2000 IYM was presented at the Julidansfestival in Amsterdam, at the Internationale Tanzwoche Dresden and in Austria.
Already with the first creations Borderline and eros-ion they received awards from the Austrian Ministry for the Arts. eros-ion was the first Austrian production to be shown at the Volkstheater, Vienna, at the Impuls Festival.
Things from Above (1995) has been presented and acclaimed at a mainfold of European festivals such as Tanz im August/Berlin, Internationale Tanzwoche Dresden and at renowned dance performance places as the Dansescenen in Copenhagen as well. Domestic festivals, e.g. Sommerszene Salzburg, Im Puls festival Vienna and Grenztanz, invited the Pilots to show this piece. In autumn 1996 Pilottanzt went on a Russia-Ukraine tour. In 1998/99 Things from Above was shown in Prague, Mexico, Costa Rica, Germany and Slovenia.
The short duet x-tracts, developed for the International Choreographers Competition in Groningen/the Netherlands, not only entered the final competition, but following the competition it was invited to the Sommertheaterfestival Hamburg and as frame programme to the Recontres Choregraphiques Internationales in Bagnolet/Paris (duets were not admitted to the competition).
In 1997 Pilottanzt presented the piece ainos one for which the company got a presentation award from the Austrian Chancellory for the Arts and won the Austrian Dance Award 1998. Things from Above was on tour in 1998 and in 1999 and was presented in Prague, Mexico, Costa Rica, Paris, Germany and Slovenia.
Pilottanzt was the winner of the International Choreographer Competition in Hannover in June 1997 and received the first prize of the jury and the audience award. Beeing chosen for the network programme Dance Roads (Bancs d´essais internationaux), Pilottanzt performed at a manifold of European theatres the duet Frost in Canada and in the USA.